Nick Hardwick

An estimated 2,500 cheering Charger fans flocked to a meeting Monday night of the mayor’s stadium advisory committee to plead the case for building a new stadium to keep the team from moving to the Los Angeles area. At a parking-lot rally before the meeting, recently retired Charger star Nick Hardwick led the boisterous crowd in a cheer that has become the fight song of the movement to retain the team: “Save Our Bolts.” As fans jammed the meeting venue, a 400-seat lounge at Qualcomm Stadium, other cheers took over, including , “No L.A” and “Hell No L.A.” and the call and retort of “Raiders” followed by “Haters.”...

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